Monday // 6.1.2026

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

In April 2012, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established. The members of the platform (IPBES is an independent intergovernmental body open to all member countries of the United Nations) are committed to building IPBES as the leading intergovernmental body for assessing the state of the planet's biodiversity, its ecosystems and the essential services they provide to society.

CBD Decisions related to IPBES:

In its decision 16/11, the Conference of the Parties requested the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to consider the outputs of the platform according to a schedule annexed to the decision. It also requested the Executive Secretary to make this schedule available on the website of the Convention.

The schedule of assessments of IPBES and of their consideration under the CBD (2024-2030), as updated after the twelfth session of the Plenary of the Platform, is:

Session number and date of consideration by the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services^a	Assessment	Meeting number and date of consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Eleventh session (2025)	Thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (“nexus assessment”)	Twenty-seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body (2025)
Eleventh session (2025)	Thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity (“transformative change assessment”)	Twenty-seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body (2025)
Twelfth session (2026)	Methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (“business and biodiversity assessment”)	Twenty-eighth meeting of the Subsidiary Body (2026)
Thirteenth session (2027)	Methodological assessment on monitoring biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (“monitoring assessment”)	Meeting of the Subsidiary Body to be held before the eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (2028) Eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (2028)
Thirteenth session (2027)	Methodological assessment of integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity (“spatial planning and connectivity assessment”)
Fourteenth session (2028)	Second global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services	Meeting of the Subsidiary Body to be held before the nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties Nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (2030)
Fifteenth session (2029)	Potential assessment topic to be determined at the thirteenth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services	Meeting of the Subsidiary Body to be held before the nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties Nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (2030)

^a The dates of future sessions are indicative.

Further information is available at: https://www.ipbes.net/assessing-knowledge